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     And for a space no man came forth
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387
Lays of Ancient Rome/Horatius
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lays%5Fof%5FAncient%5FRome%2FHoratius
“How are you, neighbour? Just the man I’m after.
9
223
North of Boston/The Housekeeper
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North%5Fof%5FBoston%2FThe%5FHousekeeper
For in the secret recess of his heart
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22
The Soul Of A Century/Donatello, A Legend
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSoul%5FOf%5FA%5FCentury%2FDonatello%2C%5FA%5FLegend
They booze to bring joy, they sin to numb pain,
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23
Brogan's Lane
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Brogan%27s%5FLane
Let me implore the actors of BerlinTo play Macbeth to crowded houses nightly.
13
24
Punch/Volume 147/Issue 3822/The Saving of Stratford
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Punch%2FVolume%5F147%2FIssue%5F3822%2FThe%5FSaving%5Fof%5FStratford
   What God's approving word hath sealed:
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5,111
The Christian Year
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
Could it have told, that nature's child,
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21
A Selection of Original Songs, Scraps, Etc., by Ned Farmer/The Norton Elm
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FSelection%5Fof%5FOriginal%5FSongs%2C%5FScraps%2C%5FEtc%2E%2C%5Fby%5FNed%5FFarmer%2FThe%5FNorton%5FElm
'Where oft with folded wings I spy
7
28
The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker/To Miss Brinckerhoff, on her quitting New-York
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPosthumous%5FWorks%5Fof%5FAnn%5FEliza%5FBleecker%2FTo%5FMiss%5FBrinckerhoff%2C%5Fon%5Fher%5Fquitting%5FNew%2DYork
   And Demas, named in faltering prayer.
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5,327
The Christian Year
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
That I love not, without I leave to love.
9
856
Astrophel and Stella
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella
     In raiment white and clean.
5
24
St. Agnes' Eve (unsourced)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FAgnes%27%5FEve%5F%28unsourced%29
With gentle assurance and security.
5
8
Translations from the Chinese/Exempt
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translations%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5FChinese%2FExempt
A wind whereby the stars were disenthralled. . . .
10
12
Averted Malefice
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Averted%5FMalefice
From homely roots unseen below
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11
The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough/Volume 2/At Rome
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoems%5Fand%5FProse%5FRemains%5Fof%5FArthur%5FHugh%5FClough%2FVolume%5F2%2FAt%5FRome
In the still shadow of its lonely sway,
8
71
Songs of the Affections, with Other Poems/A Spirit's Return
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Songs%5Fof%5Fthe%5FAffections%2C%5Fwith%5FOther%5FPoems%2FA%5FSpirit%27s%5FReturn
  A star gleam in the night.
6
3
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/To J. Q.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FTo%5FJ%2E%5FQ%2E
Her sons won’t sell the house or the things in it.
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16
North of Boston/The Black Cottage
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North%5Fof%5FBoston%2FThe%5FBlack%5FCottage
Death is the conqueror of clay, And can but clay detain;
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26
The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker/A Thought on Death
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPosthumous%5FWorks%5Fof%5FAnn%5FEliza%5FBleecker%2FA%5FThought%5Fon%5FDeath
From point to point alive with light, Shalt thou my spirit brighten;
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8
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 7/Wein-lied (A wine song)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F7%2FWein%2Dlied%5F%28A%5Fwine%5Fsong%29
Awake! arise! the athlete's arm
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5
In the Harbor/A Fragment
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/In%5Fthe%5FHarbor%2FA%5FFragment
By noblest longing consecrated.
4
12
Poet Lore/Volume 26/Number 2/My Battle-Cry
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poet%5FLore%2FVolume%5F26%2FNumber%5F2%2FMy%5FBattle%2DCry
A-down the wind like a running pack the hounds of the ocean bayed,
13
37
Solomon Kane's Homecoming
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Solomon%5FKane%27s%5FHomecoming
“O’er many hearts thou long hast reigned,
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394
St. John's Eve (Kochanowski)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FJohn%27s%5FEve%5F%28Kochanowski%29
My eyes will never see the brook,
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39
Orara
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Orara
Between my soul and the world.
6
28
The Night Forest
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FNight%5FForest
But I—the light of heaven was dim
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119
Landon in The New Monthly 1831/The Convict
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FNew%5FMonthly%5F1831%2FThe%5FConvict
Just like a coffin clapt in a canoe,
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189
Beppo (Lord Byron)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beppo%5F%28Lord%5FByron%29
There is sultry gloom on the mountain's brow And a sultry glow beneath;
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1
Littell's Living Age/Volume 131/Issue 1690/August on the Mountains
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F131%2FIssue%5F1690%2FAugust%5Fon%5Fthe%5FMountains
And more glad, until gladness blossoms, bursts 1920
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175
Balaustion's Adventure/IV
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FIV
For rest beside them! And my country hounds
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25
A Little Child's Monument/In the Alps
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2FIn%5Fthe%5FAlps
What voice his inmost heart appalls? -
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4,470
The Christian Year
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
It broods incumbent. Forthwith from the plain,
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426
The Destiny of Nations (unsourced)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDestiny%5Fof%5FNations%5F%28unsourced%29
Twill make a great splutter with smoke & damp
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14
English Encouragement of Art
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/English%5FEncouragement%5Fof%5FArt
The mist before us lifted
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43
The Battle of New Orleans
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBattle%5Fof%5FNew%5FOrleans
The memory throws up high and dry
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23
Prufrock and Other Observations/Rhapsody on a Windy Night
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prufrock%5Fand%5FOther%5FObservations%2FRhapsody%5Fon%5Fa%5FWindy%5FNight
Oh speed thee, then, and free a groaning land
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145
The Tears of Khorassan
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FTears%5Fof%5FKhorassan
    I could not look beyond—
5
15
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1833/Tomb of Mahomed Shah
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FFisher%27s%5FDrawing%5FRoom%5FScrap%5FBook%2C%5F1833%2FTomb%5Fof%5FMahomed%5FShah
                   Till all our minds for ever flow
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174
The First Half of the Seventeenth Century/English Poetry
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FFirst%5FHalf%5Fof%5Fthe%5FSeventeenth%5FCentury%2FEnglish%5FPoetry
By Charles and Martha Enderby,"
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2
Reynard The Fox Part I
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FI
                  "Ask me no more whither do stray
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51
The First Half of the Seventeenth Century/English Poetry
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FFirst%5FHalf%5Fof%5Fthe%5FSeventeenth%5FCentury%2FEnglish%5FPoetry
Hushing its billowy breast--
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27
Hymn of the City
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hymn%5Fof%5Fthe%5FCity
As alone there triumphs to the life
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11
Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900/The Triumph
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Oxford%5FBook%5Fof%5FEnglish%5FVerse%5F1250%2D1900%2FThe%5FTriumph
As oft the Learn'd by being Singular;
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373
An Essay on Criticism
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FEssay%5Fon%5FCriticism
p. 104.
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212
The Poem-book of the Gael/The Saltair na Rann/The Death of Adam
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoem%2Dbook%5Fof%5Fthe%5FGael%2FThe%5FSaltair%5Fna%5FRann%2FThe%5FDeath%5Fof%5FAdam
Rather his red Yesterday and his regal To-morrow,
8
8
The Captive (Kipling)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCaptive%5F%28Kipling%29
Why needs he cherish there?
5
34
A Prisoner in a Dungeon Deep
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FPrisoner%5Fin%5Fa%5FDungeon%5FDeep
When the first man became a living soul,
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204
The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green/The Ruins of Rome
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FArmstrong%2C%5FDyer%2C%5Fand%5FGreen%2FThe%5FRuins%5Fof%5FRome
‘Flee from him,’ pearl-pale Niamh weeping cried,
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518
The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems/The Wanderings of Oisin
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWanderings%5Fof%5FOisin%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FWanderings%5Fof%5FOisin
   Gott sie dank go bragh!
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22
An American (Howard)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FAmerican%5F%28Howard%29
In godlike beauty, on its base was raised,
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79
On his Consulship
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On%5Fhis%5FConsulship
And sighing cried, 'You need not tell;
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15
The Works of Henry Fielding/The Question (Fielding)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWorks%5Fof%5FHenry%5FFielding%2FThe%5FQuestion%5F%28Fielding%29
The sea, to bid their cook, or wife, or friend,
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75
Beppo (Lord Byron)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beppo%5F%28Lord%5FByron%29
Were young when wedlock’s knot was tied—
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2
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 1/The Lord of Nann and the fairy
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F1%2FThe%5FLord%5Fof%5FNann%5Fand%5Fthe%5Ffairy
      And will our missives con no more;
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111
The Trustee's Lament
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FTrustee%27s%5FLament
For heard ye not John Farrel's vow to be avenged upon me
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5
Dead Man's Hate
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dead%5FMan%27s%5FHate
As if embracing, they appeared.
5
768
May (Mácha)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/May%5F%28M%C3%A1cha%29
And comrades from that day were we.
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12
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Vengeance Is Sweet
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FVengeance%5FIs%5FSweet
Strewn here and there
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8
Translations from the Chinese/Deus Haec Otia Fecit
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translations%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5FChinese%2FDeus%5FHaec%5FOtia%5FFecit
Like one who, rousing from a trance,Reluctant wakes, and half in sorrow,
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24
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 9/Clytè
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F9%2FClyt%C3%A8
That I know it will be, when the spell has vanished,
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7
Poems of Passion/Communism
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FPassion%2FCommunism
Than pettifogging in our antique laws—
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420
To Bourke's Statue
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5FBourke%27s%5FStatue
      O what is love, if we must part so soon?
10
14
An Anthology of Australian Verse/Despair
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FAnthology%5Fof%5FAustralian%5FVerse%2FDespair
A hundred yards or two belowThey issue forth a foaming torrent:
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26
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 11/The bride of an hour
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F11%2FThe%5Fbride%5Fof%5Fan%5Fhour
There standing in his lone watch, Egremont
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166
The Creek of the Four Graves
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCreek%5Fof%5Fthe%5FFour%5FGraves
And snatches of its Elysian chant
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107
Prometheus Unbound; a lyrical drama in four acts with other poems/The Sensitive Plant
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prometheus%5FUnbound%3B%5Fa%5Flyrical%5Fdrama%5Fin%5Ffour%5Facts%5Fwith%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FThe%5FSensitive%5FPlant
Yawning, or tilting nose in quest,
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951
Reynard The Fox Part I
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FI
For though the sage to aid our cause advise,
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285
The Tears of Khorassan
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FTears%5Fof%5FKhorassan
And will you leave me on the hills alone?
9
243
The Poetical Works of John Keats/Lamia
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FJohn%5FKeats%2FLamia
The Question Answer'd
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1
The Question Answer'd
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FQuestion%5FAnswer%27d
Familiar to my hands and to my lips
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11
To My Mother (Pearse)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5FMy%5FMother%5F%28Pearse%29
One glove was off, and he fumbled
7
71
A Reminiscence of Cricket
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FReminiscence%5Fof%5FCricket
   For their abiding-place be made,
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5,848
The Christian Year
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
Whilst I, across the sea, but dream the sound.
9
34
An American to Mother England
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FAmerican%5Fto%5FMother%5FEngland
          But when in majesty I saw him stand
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8
Memoirs of Anne C. L. Botta/To Lamartine
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Memoirs%5Fof%5FAnne%5FC%2E%5FL%2E%5FBotta%2FTo%5FLamartine
But the trees grew taller and closer, immense in their wrinkling bark;
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699
The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems/The Wanderings of Oisin
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWanderings%5Fof%5FOisin%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FWanderings%5Fof%5FOisin
And, crying "Havoc!" go and play the Hun.
8
31
Punch/Volume 147/Issue 3821/An Imperial Overture
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Punch%2FVolume%5F147%2FIssue%5F3821%2FAn%5FImperial%5FOverture
They keep themselves by keeping sheep and turning up the ground;
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2
How M'Dougal Topped the Score
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/How%5FM%27Dougal%5FTopped%5Fthe%5FScore
And good resolves, a moment hot,
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14
Verses for an Album
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Verses%5Ffor%5Fan%5FAlbum
They reached the low sallee before he could wheel
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37
On the Range
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On%5Fthe%5FRange
The breast-plate on for fight: but brow and cheek
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148
The Forest Sanctuary, and Other Poems/The Forest Sanctuary
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FForest%5FSanctuary%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FForest%5FSanctuary
It's not for the want of fame
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10
The Shores of Amerikay
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FShores%5Fof%5FAmerikay
Of Gwendolyn and Gladys Gates.”
5
36
Grimm Tales Made Gay/How Fair Cinderella Disposed of Her Shoe
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Grimm%5FTales%5FMade%5FGay%2FHow%5FFair%5FCinderella%5FDisposed%5Fof%5FHer%5FShoe
    Till shade itself was past:
5
99
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1838/Rydal Water and Grasmere Lake
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FFisher%27s%5FDrawing%5FRoom%5FScrap%5FBook%2C%5F1838%2FRydal%5FWater%5Fand%5FGrasmere%5FLake
Minorities, since time began,
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21
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Right's Security
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FRight%27s%5FSecurity
To take Monck Mason up and set him down
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24
Ode to Messrs Green Robert Hollond and Monck Mason on their Late Balloon Expedition
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode%5Fto%5FMessrs%5FGreen%5FRobert%5FHollond%5Fand%5FMonck%5FMason%5Fon%5Ftheir%5FLate%5FBalloon%5FExpedition
Wat's de use o' waitin'
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13
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Wading' In De Creek
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FWading%27%5FIn%5FDe%5FCreek
  A lad from over the Tweed!
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18
Songs of Action/A Ballad of the Ranks
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Songs%5Fof%5FAction%2FA%5FBallad%5Fof%5Fthe%5FRanks
Less is the human spirit by it haunted
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15
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1839/Colgong on the Ganges
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FFisher%27s%5FDrawing%5FRoom%5FScrap%5FBook%2C%5F1839%2FColgong%5Fon%5Fthe%5FGanges
That was of Urias the knight ;Ye wist he had but one.
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61
Poems and Ballads (Swinburne)/The Masque of Queen Bersabe
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fand%5FBallads%5F%28Swinburne%29%2FThe%5FMasque%5Fof%5FQueen%5FBersabe
   Do suffer fullest penalty for sin.
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4
Poems of Cheer/The Punished
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FThe%5FPunished
"Meda syndon micla þina!Ne læt þu þe þin mod asealcan,
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2,601
Gecyndbēc Lēoþ
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE
Should both be like obscured in their end?
8
271
A Funeral Elegy
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FFuneral%5FElegy
She breathed in the ear of each dolphin her trouble,
10
44
Poems Sigourney 1827/Sabrina
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5FSigourney%5F1827%2FSabrina
With many thorns . . . that sharply stick:
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3
Dead Passion's Flame
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dead%5FPassion%27s%5FFlame
It show you Leichhardt track!"
5
20
The Lost Leichhardt
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FLost%5FLeichhardt
She lay beside me in the dawn.
7
3
Alba
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alba
     Wan prisoners ensepulchred
3
18
Enamels and Cameos/The Blind Man
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Enamels%5Fand%5FCameos%2FThe%5FBlind%5FMan
Till he that rides the whirlwind checks the rein,
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535
Retirement (Cowper)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Retirement%5F%28Cowper%29
The Paddymelon Flat got burnt
5
41
The Bushfire
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBushfire
To gather king-cups in the yellow mead,
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301
The Poetical Works of William Cowper (Benham)/The Task/Book 6
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FWilliam%5FCowper%5F%28Benham%29%2FThe%5FTask%2FBook%5F6